Quote by Richard Dawkins
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with n

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. – Richard Dawkins

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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. – Richard Dawkins

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Faith
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Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but thats because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection. – Richard Dawkins

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car
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Isnt it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it? – Richard Dawkins

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Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion. – Neale Donald Walsch

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Religion

I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with. – Gael Garcia Bernal

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Religion

The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God. – William Ames

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A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. – James Feibleman, Understanding Philosophy, 1973

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Hell is full of good intentions or desires. – St. Bernard of Clairvaux

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Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget. – John Spratt

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The U. S. Constitution doesnt guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. – Benjamin Franklin

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The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession. – Martin Luther

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God